Logistics: Big Data Benefits and Challenges

Logistics Big Data Benefits

Logistics / Distribution managers saw high value in all six areas that we asked them about. They perceived the highest logistics Big Data Benefits in monitoring product shipments (which is increasingly important in a world of terrorism, increasing theft, and increasingly demanding customers who want products to be available at the stores they frequent).

Also highly rated were finding places where inventory is disappearing and identifying spikes in costs.

Logistics Big Data Challenges

Unlike their colleagues outside the logistics function, logistics managers are quite concerned about the theft of data. In fact, they’re most worried about keeping it secure from internal parties. Second on their list of top challenges is figuring how to use the data to make decisions.